"This person will definitely not be with us, but you just need to remember one thing: the enemy is our temporary friends. In any case, in this Xianyang City, he would never have accomplished without us, and without him, we would not have accomplished."

At this time, Hu Hai was no longer the one who was timid in the Xianyang Palace and never dared to show his true face. He looked at Qi Yi with a delicate face in front of him, and his eyes showed calmness and wisdom that Qi Yi had almost never seen before.

Qi Yi was even a little unbelievable. This was the Hu Hai she had seen before, but she knew that she had awakened him from her sleep. Whether it was right or wrong, she could only leave it to time to test.

After such a conversation, Hu Hai and Qi Yi did not act rashly. They did not inquire about any rumors, and they still stayed in their own mansion without leaving the door.

After investing his energy in this matter for a while but without any results, Ying Gao inevitably pulled out his energy from this matter.

As big as the Qin Dynasty, there are so many things he needs to solve and deal with. Although this matter is a matter of a mouse shit, Ying Gao also knows that as long as the mouse keeps hiding in the hole and not coming out, even if he has the ability to do so, he has no choice.

So he could only continue to hand over this matter to Cao Shen, and he no longer paid attention to it, because in the reply from Fusu to himself, Fusu had already said that in the order of one or two months, Guilin and Xiangjun would fall into the hands of Daqin.

After getting Guilin and Xiang County, two counties with considerable area, plus Yelang, which was taken down by Han Xin and Peng Yue, the connection between these places directly made the territory of the Qin Dynasty half a circle larger.

After the territory expanded, Ying Gao had to start solving a problem, that is, the uneven population distribution of various counties in the Qin Dynasty.

The Yelang, which was recently obtained, and even the two counties of Bashu, which are not far from Yelang, have a very sparse population due to the difficulty of traveling on the road and the remote location.

It is precisely because these places have sparse populations and high mountains that they become the passage for Xiang Yu to enter the Huns, and later became the base for Liu Bang to lead his army to resist the Qin Dynasty. Although these did not have much impact on Ying Gao in the end, Ying Gao certainly knew that if these places were not easy to develop, it would be of no benefit to the Qin Dynasty.

Moreover, the most important reason for this is that the capital of the Qin Dynasty is Xianyang, but Xianyang is not in the central position of the Qin Dynasty, but in the western position of the Qin Dynasty. In this case, if the counties south of Xianyang cannot play a role in protecting Xianyang, if they really suffer any crisis in the future, it is not a good way to mobilize troops from counties outside the pass.

Ying Gao knew that Hangu Pass was the last line of defense for Qin during the Warring States Period, but now that the Great Qin unified the Central Plains, there is almost no need for the existence of Hangu Pass. If he still had a lot of troops gathered in Hangu Pass, it would not have any effect except to make the people of other six countries feel that they were not real Daqin people.

So after thinking about it alone for a while, Ying Gao summoned several of his confidants to his hall alone, and proposed that he wanted to do it for a long time, but he endured it and knew that what he was doing now was immigration.

In more than a year when there was no war, Ying Gao conducted another comprehensive survey of the household registration of Daqin. According to the results reported by various counties this time, the population of Daqin increased by more than one million compared with when Ying Gao ascended the throne before. Although these growth was less than one-twentieth of the total population of Daqin, it was also a result that made Ying Gao quite excited.

According to Xiao He's compilation, the reasons for the sharp increase in the population in recent years are diverse. Many previous black households have gained status due to Ying Gao's several amnesty. Due to the decrease in corvee service, fewer people died on corvee service. In addition, there was no war, and there were many more children born than before.

What Ying Gao valued more was of course the increase in the birth rate of the Qin Dynasty. The land of the Qin Dynasty was extremely vast, and the population was still very small compared to the land, and it was concentrated in several relatively wealthy counties.

Of course, there are historical reasons for this situation. It is not that the land of Bashu and Guilin and Xiangjun cannot cultivate food, but because there was no decent national occupation in these places during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This caused the current situation and was also the reason why Ying Gao had confidence in immigration.

"Immigration? Master, you must be very cautious in this matter. Before, the First Emperor had only carried out small-scale immigration within the Qin Dynasty several times, which eventually made the people complain. Now the prestige of the people in the Qin Dynasty has just been established, so this matter needs to be cautious."

After Ying Gao raised this time, Xiao He was the first to question it.

The immigration of the First Emperor mentioned in Xiao He was caused by the fact that the immigration at that time was not large.

However, this practice of forcing the people to leave their homes where they lived for generations still made many people feel resentful. In addition, many people died of fatigue during the migration. Later, when the whole country opposed Qin, it was said that almost all the immigrants had rebelled, which was undoubtedly a major lesson in Xiao He's heart.

After Xiao He said the words, Ying Gao looked at the others around him. Although they didn't say much, Ying Gao knew that what they were thinking in their hearts should be similar to what Xiao He thought in their hearts, but they were afraid that Ying Gao would not be ashamed to say too much, so he endured it.

"Then the left prime minister can tell why the people who were moved to other places opposed Qin?"

"The people of our Great Qin attach great importance to their hometown. The emperor should know that even though almost all the territory outside the Great Wall has been occupied by the Huns, there are still many villages scattered outside the Great Wall. They naturally know the dangers of the Huns, but they still do not want to move into the Great Wall, which is enough to explain the reason for this matter."

Obviously, Xiao He had a very sufficient reason. As soon as he finished speaking, several people next to him nodded repeatedly. Ying Gao saw this situation and did not look anxious. The reason he summoned these people here was to convince them, otherwise Ying Gao might have announced the matter directly in the court.

"The Zuo Prime Minister is reasonable, but if I could reduce some corvee and taxes to the people who were willing to move, would anyone be happy to go to Bashu or Guilin and Xiangjun?"

"Reduce some taxes and corvee service? If this is true, I am afraid that some people who live in other places who are not satisfied with each other can move, but how much change can these people bring to these counties?"

Ying Gao knew that Xiao He had a very good foundation for each county, including Xiang County and Guilin that he had just captured. Although these two counties had been included in the territory of the Qin Dynasty by the First Emperor and had already been named, these two places were really just received by Fusu to the territory of the Qin Dynasty. It was not very important to have any other connections to the name of the Qin Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, the population gap between Xiangjun and Guilin is quite large, and it is not something that a small En Xiaohui like Ying Gao can settle.

Of course Xiao He knew this, so after Ying Gao spoke out his previous strategy, he shook his head with a serious expression. He could vaguely know the purpose of Ying Gao's attempt to migrate the people of the Qin Dynasty, but the cautious Xiao He thought that this is not the time, and for the current booming national strength of the Qin Dynasty, migration is really unnecessary.

There is another thing that Xiao He didn't say, that although this corvee service can be reduced to some exemptions, it cannot be all exempted.

Although the Qin Dynasty has no such task as building palaces and imperial tombs, the construction of straight roads has never stopped. In addition, the large number of warships in the south require a lot of manpower. If you say it is exempt, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After hearing Xiao He's rebuttal, Ying Gao was still not angry, and the smile on his face became even stronger. Obviously, Xiao He was not arguing with him, but was telling the real possible problems in his thoughts.

"Why don't you know if I have the title of Daqin? In the past two years, because there has been no war in the Qin Dynasty, almost no one in the army can rely on military merits to obtain the title of Daqin. So I have decided that the migration of the people will be linked to the reward of the title. I wonder what the officials think?"

When everyone heard the word "title", their faces showed a look of surprise. The title of the 20th level of the Qin people was very sacred in the eyes of the old Qin people, and they were all exchanged for it with unknown amount of blood. Now Ying Gao actually said that he wanted to use this title as bait to immigrate to the people of the Qin people. It has to be said that it was a bit absurd in the eyes of some old Qin people.

Sure enough, this time it was not Xiao He who stood up to refute, but Meng Yi.

"Your Majesty, the military merits of the Qin Dynasty were made by the soldiers with the enemy's heads. How can they be easily given to people without any military merits? If this is the case, it will probably make the soldiers' hearts cold!"

Although Meng Yi has been an official in the Qin court for many years, he also came from the battlefield in his early years. As an old Qin nobleman, he still has a lot of arrogance in his bones.

Therefore, the military merits obtained through migration alone were indeed disrespectful to the title of Daqin, but because he was facing the Emperor Ying Gao of the Qin Dynasty, he did not dare to say it clearly.

Seeing this situation, Ying Gaoyi thought that he was going to announce a decision, but this time he became a verbal fighter.

But he knew that it was necessary to convince these people if he wanted to continue to carry out this matter on the entire land of Daqin. Moreover, if they were to put it bluntly, they were all for the good of Daqin, so he could only convince him patiently and not crush him casually.

"Don't worry, the Grand Marshal. What I said before is that there are many conditions, that is, the people who have moved to these several counties. If someone from my family joins our Great Qin army in the future, the people who join the army can directly obtain the first-level title of Great Qin, a commoner. If no one joins the king of Great Qin, this matter will be a pity. I wonder what the Grand Marshal thinks?"

"this……"

Old Qin people rarely do things as troublesome as Ying Gao. Ying Gao's words made Meng Yi react for a while, so he did not give his own answer immediately, but Xiao He, Chen Ping and others who were reacting faster next to him all showed a lit feeling. Obviously, what Ying Gao said this time was something they didn't expect.

"In this way, not only will it be possible for us to encourage these migrant people to join the army when we recruit soldiers in the Qin Dynasty, but it will also allow those people who are not recruited to have more children. This is really a win-win situation!"

The person who said this was Chen Ping, who had always been standing beside him honestly. He had almost the same idea as Xiao He and Meng Yi before. Now that he heard Ying Gao say about his title, he finally knew Ying Gao’s real purpose, and he still admired Ying Gao for such exchange conditions. Although he claimed to be very smart on weekdays, he was still worse than Ying Gao’s head.

"If you think it is true as what the Lord said, we will all rely on the Lord to dispatch it!"

This time, Meng Yi had already reacted a little. He knew that since Ying Gao had already said this, he must have thought of a complete plan in his mind. These words from them could have forced Ying Gao's complete plan out.

As for the issue of titles, as long as these people must enter the army, Meng Yi would not have any questions, because the official positions and titles of the Qin Dynasty will not be hereditary, especially those low-level titles. Although a priest will be given a hectares of land, a servant, a house, and a salary of fifty stones a year in the army, if this person dies in the army, these things will be gone.

Therefore, Ying Gao's idea effectively avoids that some people want to enjoy life at home after getting this title. This is obviously impossible. If you want to enjoy life at home, that's not impossible. At least one person in your family must fight for the Qin Dynasty on the battlefield, right?

"Okay, since that's the case, this matter will be settled for the time being. In three days, I will announce the execution of this matter in the court!"
Chapter completed!